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Niviarsiat is a prominent mountain in southern Greenland, near the southern end of the Greenland ice sheet in Kujalleq municipality. Rising to about 1,300 meters, it stands out as a conspicuous summit with several peaks extending northeast of the Kiattuut Sermiat glacier. It also figures modestly in the history of Greenland exploration. During his 1829 expedition, Wilhelm August Graah believed he saw Niviarsiat’s peaks from a hilltop on Griffenfeldt Island on Greenland’s east coast and identified them as “The Maidens” in the Julianehaab district. Despite the long sightline across the ice sheet, later authors have regarded his conclusion as plausible.
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Kujalleq · Greenland